On 30 January 2014 16:34, Bea Groves <beagro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Y'know the comical thing is: when I read the subject line I had a sudden > vision of Microsoft finally giving in and going open-source! ;-)
Well, quite. It should have said "Windows-free at last!" The missing hyphen changes the meaning. With a hyphen: "Someone or something is finally free of Windows" Without a hyphen: "Windows is finally free!" But nobody respects punctuation any more... :-( I was misled by the subject line because there is some debate that, following Apple's recent lead (and the late Sun's earlier move, before its hostile acquisition by Oracle) of making their OSes small-f free - as in, free of charge, gratis - that MICROS~1 might do the same with Windows 9. -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk * GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com * Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 * Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
